Default focus and recovery
Choose the initial control and recover automatically when the current selection becomes invalid, disabled, inactive, or non-interactable.
Unity uGUI focus & navigation
Smart UI Focus
& Navigation
Reliable Focus. Smarter Navigation.
Keep your existing Unity uGUI menus and add reliable controller, keyboard, mouse, and touch focus behavior.
Focused components, familiar workflow
Keep your UI framework. Strengthen its focus lifecycle.
Smart UI Focus & Navigation works with standard uGUI Selectables, Unity's EventSystem, and the Input System. It adds focused reliability and navigation components without replacing the UI framework.
Remembered selection
Restore the last valid selection independently for each menu or focus scope.
Exact modal restoration
Return focus to the exact valid control that opened a modal or popup.
Smart directional navigation
Generate deterministic links for freeform, vertical, horizontal, complete-grid, and ragged-grid layouts.
Per-direction overrides
Keep the generated target with Auto, block a direction with None, or choose a specific Selectable with Explicit.
Dynamic UI rebuilds
Refresh links after controls are added, removed, reordered, enabled, disabled, or moved by layout changes.
Input mode detection
Expose current Mouse, Keyboard, or Gamepad mode and receive a callback when the active mode changes.
Standard Unity integration
Keep uGUI transitions, Input Actions, EventSystem navigation, and existing UI structure.
Product overview
See Smart UI Focus & Navigation in action.
Watch the complete workflow, from reliable focus handling to directional navigation and dynamic UI updates.
Focus recovery
Recover a usable selection automatically.
Each focus scope can define a default and remember its last valid control. If the current EventSystem selection becomes invalid, disabled, inactive, or non-interactable, focus can recover to a usable target.
Modal restoration
Return to the exact opener.
Push a popup scope when it opens and pop it when it closes. The prior valid selection is restored without replacing Unity's EventSystem.
Dynamic UI
Rebuild after content and layout changes.
Runtime-added, removed, reordered, disabled, and reflowed controls can refresh their explicit links after Unity's layout system updates.
Navigation overrides
Keep, block, or replace any generated direction.
Add a lightweight override to an individual Selectable. Auto preserves the generated target, None forces no target, and Explicit uses a validated Selectable chosen in the Inspector.
Input System integration
Keyboard · Gamepad · Mouse · Touch
Use an active EventSystem with InputSystemUIInputModule. Input mode detection exposes Mouse, Keyboard, and Gamepad activity, while standard pointer actions support mouse and touch workflows.
Compatibility and platforms
Designed for established Unity UI workflows.
Compatible with Unity 2022.3 LTS and Unity 6. Validated with Built-in, URP, and HDRP.
Unity and rendering
Compatible with Unity 2022.3 LTS and Unity 6.
Validated with:
- Built-in Render Pipeline
- Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
- High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
Requires
- Unity UI / uGUI
- Unity Input System
- Active EventSystem using InputSystemUIInputModule
UI Toolkit is not currently supported.
Supported Platforms
Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS · Android · WebGL
Input
Keyboard · Gamepad / controller · Mouse · Touch
Validated Builds
- Windows x64 Player build
- Android IL2CPP ARM64 build
- Android real-device runtime
- Android touch input on a physical device
Validated on Windows x64 and Android IL2CPP ARM64, including real-device Android touch input.
Documentation and support.
Read the complete installation, workflow, API, and troubleshooting guides online, or contact LevelArgento directly at support@levelargento.com.